Marguerite Moran
Director, Lonsdale Public Library
Director, Londsdale Public Library
Director, Londsdale Public Library
In part one of this series, we discussed the critical need for preservation of our historical bridges and the records that document them. Today, we look at who keeps these records and how the documentation is changing.
The city, whose name evokes the romance of the exotic to American ears, is a quiet desert town today, but historically was a center of trade and culture. The legacy of that past is thousands of irreplaceable historical manuscripts. Long-term efforts to preserve and organize these texts were ongoing when Timbuktu was overrun by Ansar Dine